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Definitions for: Vanadium [n] a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
Webster (1913) Definition: Va*na"di*um, n. [NL., fr. Icel. Vanad[=i]s, a surname
of the Scandinavian goddess Freya.] (Chem.)
A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found
combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as
an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is
intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having
both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely).
Atomic weight 51.2.
Synonyms: atomic number 23, V
See Also: carnotite, metal, metallic element, vanadinite
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